I Have A Friendship That Is Literally Just This

Tag yourself I’m fuck it let’s sign up for basket weaving

i don’t want to be the best at anything. that would be stressful & wouldn’t leave room for much else

i would like to be reasonably good at a handful of things. but mostly i want to enjoy doing things, and to find fulfillment in doing them. the level of “skill” I reach is very much secondary.

“Annie are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?”

“No, I need help with question seven.”

My parents made fun of me my whole life for not liking black and white movies. As a kid I absolutely refused to watch them and my parents called me spoiled, uncultured, said my generation lacked the attention span to appreciate good cinema. And I hated it. They wouldn’t listen to me when I told them black and white movies made me feel uncomfortable. They forced me to watch various old classics to prove how great they were, even resorting to showing me ones in full color, and I hated almost all of them.

And that’s because I didn’t hate old Hollywood movies because they were in black and white, I hate old Hollywood classics because of how women were represented and treated: like objects whose entire personality, hopes, and dreams get completely and utterly changed by the main male protagonist and this is portrayed as good and right. Even as a kid I could see this portrayal of a willful, confident, inspired woman be transformed into a “good women” by a domineering man until she perfectly fits in this housewife stereotype and it made me feel sick to my stomach. Women lacked any personhood at all in almost every one of my parents beloved “old classics.”

I guess all this is to say parents often say things like, “we didn’t raise you to be this way” or “why would you think we believe [some specific thing]” but like, it’s not just the things you directly tell your children that shapes who they become, it’s everything you expose them to and the message behind those things. Children are really quite remarkable at picking up context, so it’s important you’re aware of not just the direct message you’re sending, but the subtext and context of everything around it.

You like a girl with a lot of personality, you say?

meirl

The 4th of July approaches, Americans, you know what that means:

It’s time to play Fireworks or Gunshots: patriot edition

And for those of us in Florida, the very special:

Fireworks or Gunshots: Floridian Patriots Deluxe Edition

5 points for every correct fireworks guess; 10 points for every correct gunshot guess. Each incorrect guess is -5 points. Unconfirmed guesses will be decided by majority vote. If you are playing alone, a coin flip can be substituted for said vote. All points and deductions are doubled for the states where both are illegal

Feel free to post your scores and compare; anything is more fun when you share it with a bunch of strangers on the internet, or at least that’s what a stranger on the internet told me

How gay is it? Hollywood had to admit it, that’s how gay

gay ppl be like yea these are my comfort characters *literal ray of sunshine*, *murderer*, *war criminal*, *six feet under*

Super thrilled to learn that people think the scars on the bridge of my nose are from a bridge piercing and not because I fell asleep in my glasses too many times as a kid and the nose piece cut into my face

“And you?”

“I was tying someone up on the subway”